Chapter 9: The New Englishes (337-374) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Chapter 9: The New Englishes (337-374). The New Englishes/ Epilogue: Next Year’s Words. The Story of English. By Don L. F. Nilsen Based on The Story of English By Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil and William Cran (Penguin, 2003). George Bernard Shaw Man of Destiny.

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“You will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.” (McCrum 338)

Indian English is the language of Rudyard Kipling, who writes about Kim and the Khyber Pass (in Afghanistan) and Peshawar (now in Pakistan), and Rikki Tikki Tavi.

Indian English is often in the writings of E. M. Forster who writes about the English colonization and the Raj.

Indian English, like Sanskrit (the holy language) and Persian (the language of the Persian empire), like Irish English, Australian English or American English, is its own special dialect of English. (McCrum 364)

“The Pacific Rim, from Singapore and Malaysia in the west, to Japan, Hong Kong and Korea to the north, Hawaii and California toward the east, and Australia to the south, has become the fastest-growing community on the planet, representing one-third of the world’s population.” (McCrum 368)

“A decline in American power might encourage a country like Singapore [or other countries in the Pacific Rim], whose children are bilingual in Mandarin and English, to switch its support to Mandarin as the medium of Far East Asian business.”

“Those countries which have strong groundings in English—like India, or Pakistan, or Bangladesh, or the countries of East Africa and West Africa—share in the task of teaching English to other countries who do not have any English but who do need English.

In that sense we are helping the cause of English in a big way. This is no more the cause of England or America. It’s the cause of the world.”